Reads tagged with “Sophie Blackall”

Favorite Books of 2022
From Rumi to Blake to Nick Cave, by way of trees, hummingbirds, grief, and music.

Things to Look Forward to: An Illustrated Celebration of Living with Presence in Uncertain Times, Disguised as a Love Letter to the Future
Love, laundry, and the miraculous in the mundane.

Philip, the Last Sweet Potato: A Non-Binary Quarantine Love Story from Beloved Children’s Book Author and Illustrator Sophie Blackall
Odd and lovely consolation for despair and aloneness springing from that place of “defiance and melancholy and ecstasy.”

A Velocity of Being: Illustrated Letters to Children about Why We Read by 121 of the Most Inspiring Humans in Our World
A labor of love 8 years in the making, featuring contributions by Jane Goodall, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Oliver, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Rebecca Solnit, Elizabeth Gilbert, Shonda Rhimes, Richard Branson, Marina Abramović, Judy Blume, and other remarkable humans living inspired and inspiring lives.

Finding Winnie: The Improbable and Touching Real-Life Story of the Baby Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
How a real-life act of kindness with a touch of serendipity sparked one of the most beloved children’s stories of all time.

Farmhouse: Sophie Blackall’s Poetic Illustrated Tribute to Time and Tenderness
“Over a hill, at the end of a road, by a glittering stream that twists and turns, stands a house…”

If You Come to Earth: A Tender Illustrated Celebration of the Many Ways to Be Human and What Makes Our Miraculous Planet a World
A humanistic love letter to who and what we are, together on this lonesome, wild, and wondrous rock adrift around a common star.

An Illustrated Celebration of How Books Touch and Transform Us
Bibliophilic delight from Sophie Blackall, Shaun Tan, Olivier Tallec, and other beloved artists, benefiting public libraries.

A Voyage in the Clouds: The Heartening Illustrated Story of the First International Flight in 1785
How a Frenchman, an Englishman, a French bulldog named Henri, and an English bulldog named Henry overcame their differences to conquer the skies.

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